On Sunday 27 April 2008 03:50:15 Bill Davidsen wrote: > "Rahul Tidke" wrote: > > Hello All, > > I wonder about these buttons on gnome desktop; do we really need these > > buttons on login screen? Reboot and shutdown allowed before login for any > > user?? > > The machines are configured for use by normal users. That means that > many are used by people who should not have privilege on the machine. As > someone said, with energy costs high, downtime is desirable for most users. > > In most cases people with access to the console have access to the > machine, and can get it to power down in some way other than a normal > shutdown. Therefore we make it moderately easy for people to do the > right thing, certain that people who have some need to have the machine > on all the time will take a moment and locate the configuration which > allows you to take those options off the board. > > The default behavior is what is useful to most people. That's desirable. > One situation I haven't seen mentioned is when the login screen refuses to accept keyboard input. On the box running rawhide I saw this frequently when Mandriva 2007 was installed and I've seen it once under rawhide. Using the mouse + menu on the login screen got a clean re-start of X which cured the problem. What would I have done without it? Anne
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